STEVE HACKETT GETS CONCEPTUAL

Almost 40 years since his last concept album, the celebrated guitarist’s new album draws inspiration from his own early years.

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Steve Hackett is to release The Circus And The Nightwhale on February 16 via InsideOutMusic. It’s his first full-blown concept album since his 1975 solo debut, The Voyage Of The Acolyte, and the narrative, which is based on the rites of passage and adventures of a character named Travla, is, to all intents and purposes, autobiographical. “It starts off in 1950 and then it’s a travel through time and personal experiences,” Hackett explains. “Lyrically it’s a description of my first impressions of the world, and then certain characters that I met. But then it moves into more and more fantastic and imagined situations.” Hackett rates Genesis’ narrative concept album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway as “one of the finest prog rock albums of all time”, and plans to play…

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